Life’s too short to stay sober

A little late here post match. I normally shoot my views immediately.

Is because of the game having less importance I guess, and being caught up doing other stuff hahaha. But yeah, my Granddad's birthday celebration at my place was fun. I'll skip the part where I grab the food at 7.15pm, talk a little with my family members till 7.30pm, welcomed my newly converted Arsenal fan friend to my humble abode to catch the game at 7.40pm, grabbing a bowl of desert just before. Hoho. Cake cutting had to take place at half time? Bahahaha. And all along no one knew why I wanted it at my place instead of at a restaurant till now. I am such a planner when it comes to football. Besides, doing it this way means combining house warming too.

After I get rid of my exam study materials beside my TV I'll show you how it looks when the game is on.

I get to show you though, where I catch the game. It's pretty cosy and points in the direction of the TV of course.

And I only got to take such a neat photo because I cleared my stuff because people were coming over. Heh. But yeah, that's my bed and I love it. Kinda like a bed-couch. So far it's been tested to hold up to 5 people. Nothing dirty of course. Just watching show in bed. How cool is that.

Anyway, I caught a video of Adebayor on BBC. There is no doubt that there'll be people who'll take apart the interview and try and agree here and disagree there but I'm so sick of tired of this whole thing. I'm not sure what leaving him out of the United clash means. Perhaps it was to cool things off. The only other thing which is to be considered is how Arsene has branded the away fans fantastic and home fans otherwise. If that were the case, then there would be no harm playing Adebayor unless he was going to be shipped off somewhere. I have nothing to say about his interview because we've heard too much already and he blames the media for his dire state rather than himself. I've always thought that no one could be more in denial than I am and I've been proven wrong. Everything Ade has said about leaving and the lure of Milan was right from the horse's mouth. Plus, no one can doubt the aunthenticity of the Beyonce comment. So whatever he has said about being framed by the media is all bollocks.

He got one thing right though. No matter what he does he probably isn't going to regain the same support he got last season right before his summer madness. Other things he got really wrong was the booing of players. The fans will never boo Fabregas or Robin. They did to Eboue but not to Fab and Robin. There are those players who have Arsenal running in their blood through their veins and it's those two. Eboue was a different case. And if anything, he worked hard to prove the fans wrong and they applauded him for his efforts. These things don't go unnoticed. He can probably contend with the knowledge that it's Adebayor who has less chance of such a turnaround. It was funny when he referred himself in the third person. I had a laugh.

So tonight's game. It was a goalless draw. And a good performance at that. When I saw the starting line-up I was moaning and groaning over the formation and certain personnel.

Van Persie was tasked with leading the front once more with Fab in the hole with Arsha on the left and Nasri on the right. In the centre of the part it was Diaby and Denilson with Song partnering Toure in centre back, Gibbs and Sagna to the left and right. Fabianski kept goal.

Robin isn't a out and out striker to play alone up front. Fab shouldn't be playing off Robin. It should be Arsha. No Walcott. Diaby and Denilson. Song at centre back was okay.

And despite all that, the team put in a very good performance. No goals, but still good. It was a team effort and it proved my wrong. No matter what stupid formation takes the field, no matter who takes the field, it all down to how much the people want it. It could be a crap formation to begin with but it could still be a great performance.

I don't have much to say already, now that it has came down to this. The boys proved that they can do it if they want to. Does it take a shareholder meeting with player bashing to get the team going like that? It was a highly disciplined performance and they kept the ball well. Lost the ball, got it back. Everyone was committed.

This makes whatever analysis about tactics a piece of crap doesn't it? When it's all down to what the team wants. There isn't going to be any talk about wanting Fab to be in his preferred deeper role, Arshavin in the hole, Walcott playing, Diaby out of sight and all the usual stuff.

They can do it if they want to.

And anyway, I thought walcott not playing was a good choice. He got owned by Evra over the two unfortunate legs. We would have wanted to switch Nasri to the right and him to the left to torment O'Shea instead but it didn't happen today when he came on.

I'm going to disappear to dreamland now.

Durian cake. Goodwood Park Hotel. To die for.

Labels: Emmanuel Adebayor, it's a team game damnit, Man Utd, Theo Walcott

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